Eric Rolls had a country mind and a country eye. He knew the bush as a great teacher, and he was forever alert to its sights, its sounds, its colour, its small clues and mighty themes. He had the rare gift of being able to inspire others with what he learnt, putting them on the way to understanding our country. He was an Australian. Bill Gammage

  

Bill Gammage has written about Australian soldiers in the Great War, Narrandera Shire, the year 1938 for the Bicentennial history, and the Hagen-Sepik patrol in New Guinea. He is now working on how Aborigines made Australia until 1788. It is work Eric would have loved.